CASH ADVANCE ITEMS We charge you for our services in obtaining: [specify relevant cash advance items]. Cemetery charges
Reason for Embalming: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Note : Before the 1994 revision, the Rule also required the following disclosure on the GPL: This list does not include prices for certain items that you may ask us to buy for you, such as cemetery or crematory services, flowers, and newspaper notices. The prices for those items will be shown on your bill or statement describing the funeral goods and services selected. [And if appropriate] We charge you for our services in buying these items. The Rule no longer requires this disclosure on the GPL. Instead, you must place a shorter version of the disclosure on the Statement of Goods and Services Selected. However, you may continue to place this disclosure on your GPL, if you wish. (f) Crematory : A “crematory” is any person, partnership or corporation that performs cremation and sells funeral goods. (g) Direct cremation : A “direct cremation” is a disposition of human remains by cremation, without formal viewing, visitation, or ceremony with the body present. (h) Funeral goods : “Funeral goods” are the goods which are sold or offered for sale directly to the public for use in connection with funeral services. (i) Funeral provider : A “funeral provider” is any person, partnership or corporation that sells or offers to sell funeral goods and funeral services to the public. (j) Funeral services : “Funeral services” are any services which may be used to: (1) care for and prepare deceased human bodies for burial, cremation or other final disposition; and (2) arrange, supervise or conduct the funeral ceremony or the final disposition of deceased human bodies. (k) Immediate burial : An “immediate burial” is a disposition of human remains by burial, without formal viewing, visitation, or ceremony with the body present, except for a graveside service. (l) Memorial service : A “memorial service” is a ceremony commemorating the deceased without the body present. (m) Funeral ceremony : A “funeral ceremony” is a service commemorating the deceased with the body present. (n) Outer burial container : An “outer burial container” is any container which is designed for placement in the grave around the casket including, but not limited to, containers commonly known as burial vaults, grave boxes, and grave liners. (o) Person : A “person” is any individual, partnership, corporation, association, government or governmental subdivision or agency, or other entity. (p) Services of funeral director and staff: The “services of funeral director and staff” are the basic services, not to be included in prices of other categories in § 453.2(b) (4), that are furnished by a funeral provider in arranging any funeral, such as conducting the arrangements conference, planning the funeral, obtaining necessary permits, and placing obituary notices.
$_________ $_________ $_________ $_________ $_________ $_________ $_________
Crematory charges
Flowers
Obituary notice Death certificate
Music
Total Cash Advance Items
TOTAL COST OF ARRANGEMENTS (including all services, merchandise, and cash advance items)
$_________
If any legal, cemetery, or crematory requirement has required the purchase of any of the items listed above, we will explain the requirement below: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________
PART 453 — FUNERAL INDUSTRY PRACTICES REVISED RULE
Section: 453.1 Definitions.
453.2 Price disclosures. 453.3 Misrepresentations. 453.4 Required purchase of funeral goods or funeral services. 453.5 Services provided without prior approval. 453.6 Retention of documents. 453.7 Comprehension of disclosures. 453.8 Declaration of intent. 453.9 State exemptions. Authority: 15 U.S.C. 57a(a); 15 U.S.C. 46(g); 5 U.S.C. 552. § 453.1 Definitions (a) Alternative container : An “alternative container” is an unfinished wood box or other non-metal receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is made of fiberboard, pressed- wood, composition materials (with or without an outside covering), or like materials. (b) Cash advance item : A “cash advance item” is any item of service or merchandise described to a purchaser as a “cash advance,” “accommodation,” “cash disbursement,” or similar term. A cash advance item is also any item obtained from a third party and paid for by the funeral provider on the purchaser’s behalf. Cash advance items may include, but are not limited to: cemetery or crematory services, pallbearers, public transportation, clergy honoraria, flowers, musicians or singers, nurses, obituary notices, gratuities, and death certificates. (c) Casket : A “casket” is a rigid container which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is usually constructed of wood, metal, fiberglass, plastic, or like material, and ornamented and lined with fabric. (d) Commission : “Commission” refers to the Federal Trade Commission. (e) Cremation : “Cremation” is a heating process which incinerates human remains.
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